Human Rights Award
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Egypt: RFK Human Rights Condemns the Arrest of HRA Laureate Ragia Omran and other 15 Defenders and Calls for the Charges Against Them to be Dropped
Tags Share RFK Human Rights strongly condemns the arbitrary arrest and detention of our 2013 Human Rights Award Laureate Ragia Omran – along with 15 other human rights defenders – and demands the Egyptian authorities immediately and unconditionally drop the unfounded charges against them. Omran is a lawyer, feminist, and human rights activist who founded
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40th Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights award goes to Xinka Parliament, in the name of peaceful resistance
Tags Share On Tuesday June 6, the same day as the 55th anniversary of the death of Robert F. Kennedy also marked the 40th Human Rights Award bestowed by his namesake organization. This year’s honoree? The Xinka Parliament, the official representative of the Xinka People, and the second-largest Indigenous nation in Guatemala. Among the distinguished
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Alessandra Korap Munduruku: ‘I will never stop fighting and defending my river’
Tags Share Each year in April the world celebrates Earth Day, but the need to really tackle environmental protection has never been more urgent than now. While States and businesses continue failing to articulate and follow through on actions to address the climate crisis and protect from its impact the communities most affected by it,
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For Western Sahara, freedom has been an empty promise
Tags Share Last week, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted recommendations of its Universal Periodic Review on Morocco. A major highlight of the process was Morocco’s abuse of human rights in Western Sahara — a country on the northwest coast of Africa that it has illegally occupied since 1975. The international community has consistently
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RFKHR’s Roby, Foro Penal President Romero take on enforced disappearances in Venezuela during live event
Tags Share Venezuela is a country that faces ongoing political repression, restrictions on civic space, widespread human rights violations, and the region’s most significant ongoing humanitarian crisis, which has caused over six million Venezuelans to flee abroad by June 2022, according to the United Nations. That’s why Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights has partnered with
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Partner, HRA Laureate Jozef addresses U.N. about human rights abuses to Black migrants
Tags Share On Tuesday, Aug. 9, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ Human Rights Award laureate Guerline Jozef, co-founder and executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, addressed the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, one of the few international human rights treaties the country has signed on to. A key partner, Jozef
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Deep Concern Over Attacks on Human Rights Defender Sultana Khaya and the Retaliation facing Sahrawi Activists in Western Sahara
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights is deeply concerned about recent reports of attacks and human rights violations by Moroccan authorities against Sahrawi human rights defender Sultana Khaya, as well as the retaliation that the Sahrawi activist and 2008 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award laureate, Aminatou Haidar, faces for her activism. On Nov.
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Human Rights Award ‘21 honors Guerline Jozef, issues Call to Action to stop Title 42
Tags Share I’m honored to be joined here today with Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award laureate Wyclef Jean. The last time we were together in person, we were walking through one of the poorest and most violent neighborhoods in Port-au Prince, where Wyclef was helping young men transform their lives. I
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Munduruku People and Their Territories Need Immediate Protection
Tags Share Wildcat gold miners invaded and attacked a Munduruku village in the Amazon on Wednesday, taking aim at leaders, including Maria Leusa Kaba, who have long opposed illegal mining on their protected Indigenous lands. As predicted, on May 26, 2021, in an alleged retaliation of a major operation against illegal mining coordinated by the
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The Dominican Republic’s Century-Long History of Racism
The Dominican Republic wants to build a border wall. It should learn from America’s mistakes.
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‘We Are Being Squeezed,’ says Prize-Winning Indigenous Activist
Tags Share Alessandra Munduruku, a leader of Brazil’s Munduruku indigenous community, has seen her home broken into and been threatened over her work defending her people and their Amazon land from illegal miners and loggers, hydropower plants, and other threats. On Thursday, the 36-year-old received the 2020 RFK Human Rights Award for “her work defending
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Brazilian Indigenous Leader Wins Robert Kennedy Human Rights Award
Tags Share Alessandra Korap Munduruku was named the winner of the 2020 RFK Human Rights Award for her work defending the rights, ancestral lands, and culture of indigenous people in Brazil. Read the full article here. Module type not found: newsArticles
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